11-27-2008, 04:00 PM

i have just bought a imac i want to buy a multimedia streamer to stream films pictures and photos to my tv i had a apple tv and its a load of rubbish i cant find anythin at all can anyone help ?

11-27-2008, 10:59 PM

One option is a PS3 or Xbox360. They will stream stuff over the network. You need software on the mac to work with them. I use Medialink for the PS3 that works pretty good. I've never done it with the xbox, but I think the program is called connect360.

These give the bennefit of doubling as a gaming machine, too

11-28-2008, 07:09 AM

Agree with the above.

Having owned both systems and used both Medialink and Connect360, I would strongly recommend the PS3 out of the two. Medialink works rather well for streaming movies,photos and music from the Mac and the PS3 reads a fair amount of formats.

The xbox360, apart from having an alarming failure rate and dreadful build quality, does not have wireless built in (Unless it is something they have introduced very recently), so you would either have to buy the wireless add-on for about £60 or run a network cable from it. It would also read far fewer formats than the PS3 (Again this may have changed in the past year or so) so Connect360 was nigh on useless for me at the time.

11-28-2008, 01:51 PM

thank you can i download the software for the xbox ? having a windows computer am struggling abit with the imac there arn't many accessories out for doin the wireless streaming

11-28-2008, 06:46 PM

Nullriver Software : Products : Connect360